Admissions information for parents and carers of primary school students.
Admissions information for parents and carers of primary school students.
Admissions information for parents and carers of primary school students.
- Pupil Admission Number (PAN): 255
- 2027/28 places to offer: 265
Oversubscription criteria
Where the school receives more applications than places available, the following admission criteria will be applied once places have been allocated to pupils who have a statement of special educational needs which names the school:
1. Looked after children and previously looked after children.
Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order). Applications for previously looked after children must be supported with appropriate evidence i.e. a copy of the adoption order, residence order or special guardianship order.
2. Children with brothers or sisters who will be attending the school at the time of admission.
3. Children with a parent/carer employed by the school.
Children of staff at the school – Priority will be given to children of staff employed by the school in either or both of the following circumstances:
- where a member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or;
- the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
4. Children living in Mosley Common and Tyldesley, situated to the north of Manchester Road (Astley) and Chaddock Lane, to its junction with the East Lancashire Road, and thereafter the East Lancashire Road, with the exception of children who live nearer to Bedford High School than Fred Longworth High School, and children living in that part of Hindsford bounded to the east by the former Borough and Urban District Boundary and bounded to the north by the northerly access road to the Chanters Industrial Estate and Tyldesley Old Road to its junction with Millers Lane and bounded to the west by Millers Lane to its junction with Langley Platt Lane and the former Borough and Urban District Boundary. View this map for assistance in determining whether you are within the boundary (marked in black).
5. Children who live in Atherton and Tyldesley who attend one of the following associated primary schools:
Tyldesley Primary School; Garrett Hall; St John’s Mosley Common; St George’s Central Tyldesley; St Stephen’s Astley; Chowbent; Hindsford CE; St Phillip’s Atherton and Parklee
6. Children living in the remainder of Tyldesley and the remainder of Atherton.
7. Other children living nearest to the school.
Tie-breaker
Where there are more children in one particular criterion than the number of places available, places will be allocated to the children who live nearest to the school. The distance will be measured in a straight line from the front entrance to the child’s home address to the Squire’s Lane entrance gate at the rear of the school using a Geographical Information System (GIS) which is based on ordnance survey.
If we offer the last place available at the school to one of twins (or triplets, and so on), our policy is to admit the other twin or triplets too.
Occasionally, the distance from home to school is the same for more than one child (for example, if more than one child lives in the same block of flats). In these cases, we will use a system randomly to pick who will be offered a place.
When considering your child’s application, we will use the permanent home address we have for you at the closing date for applications.
If parents are separated and the child spends time at each parents’ address, the address which will be used for admission to schools is the address where the child sleeps the majority of the school nights (Sunday to Thursday) during the week in term time. Where there is dispute or equal nights are slept, parent will be asked to provide proof of the address registered with the child’s GP.
We may ask to see additional forms of evidence of your home address (photocopies are acceptable). This may include:
- proof of where you are registered for council tax
- your television licence
- wage/ salary slip
- proof of your child tax credits
Any evidence you provide must show that the parent or main carer lives at this address. We may seek evidence by other means if the parent/carer is unable to provide sufficient proof of their residence.
Brother and Sisters
We will include half-brothers and half-sisters; stepbrothers and stepsisters; and foster brothers and foster sisters who live at the same address as part of the same family unit.
Waiting List
Places may become available at a school after the offer date. We will:
- Put all children who we refuse a place at one of their preferences on the waiting list for the school;
- Keep the list in priority order, decided by the oversubscription criteria for the school only;
- Offer any place that becomes available to the next child on the waiting list; and
- Maintain the waiting list until 31st December 2027.
We must keep the waiting list in order of the oversubscription criteria for the school. This is a legal requirement. We cannot take into account the date the application was received or the length of time a child’s name has been on the waiting list. This means that both on time and late applications are treated the same for waiting list purposes. Your child’s position on the waiting list may change if another applicant is refused a place and their child is ranked higher in the school’s oversubscription criteria.
Late applications
Late applications (those received after the closing date) will only be considered after those received by the closing date. The only exception to this is applications for looked after children that are received by 30 November will be included with on time applications.
Applications outside of the normal age group
Parents may seek a place for their child outside of their normal age group, for example, to a higher year group if the child is gifted and talented or to a lower year group if the child has experienced problems such as ill health.
Where a child has been educated out of their normal age group at primary school, the parent may again request admission out of the normal age group when they transfer to secondary school. It will be for the admission authority of that school to decide whether to admit the child out of their normal age group.
A decision is made on the basis of the circumstances of each case.
The process is as follows:
Stage 1 – request
Parents make a formal request to the Local Authority School Organisation Team in writing with any supporting evidence they wish to be considered.
- A request for early entry into Year 7 should be made before 31 October in the previous academic year in order to give sufficient time for the case to be considered prior to the offer of school places on 1 March.
- A request for in-year admission outside of the normal age group should be made on the normal in year transfer form.
Stage 2 – decision
Requests for voluntary-aided, foundation and academy schools will be referred to the school to be considered.
Requests for community and voluntary controlled schools will be considered by the local authority. We will look at the following factors but these are not exhaustive:
- Parent’s views
- The needs of the child and the possible impact on them of being educated out of year group
- The child’s medical history and views of medical professionals if appropriate
- In the case of children born prematurely the fact that they may have naturally fallen into the lower age group if they had been born on their expected date of birth
- Whether delayed academic, social, emotional or physical development is adversely affecting their readiness for school;
- Any other information which the parent requests the local authority to consider.
Stage 3 – outcome
Parents are notified of the decision in writing by the School Organisation Team.
Request agreed:
If the request is agreed the application will be considered for the year group requested and ranked alongside any other applications in accordance with the oversubscription criteria for the school. There is no guarantee that a place will be offered at the preferred school. Parents have a statutory right to appeal against the refusal of a place at a school for which they have applied. This right does not apply if they are offered a place at the school but it is not in their preferred age group.
Request refused:
There is no statutory right of appeal against the refusal of a request for admission outside the normal age group. However, if the parents are dissatisfied they have the right to complain through the Council’s complaints procedure for decisions made by the local authority or under the school’s complaints procedure where the decision has been made by the school.
Apply online
If your child will turn 11 between 1st September 2026 and 31st August 2027, they will transfer to secondary school at the start of the new school year in September 2027.
To apply for a place at Fred Longworth High School click on the button below.
